"It is deeply worrying that students are being held by Palestinian forces for no apparent reason other than their connection to Hamas or their opinions," Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East and North Africa director, comments in the statement.

Young people from Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Yemen and many other Arab countries are turning to social media to tell the world that they love Israel. The trend began, according to Al Monitor, when an Arab Muslim serving in the IDF told the good truth re the IDF.